vociferosity 
Shall we give poor Bufilere's testimonial in mess-room 
dialect, in its native twanging vociSerosity ? 
Carlyle, Mirabean. 
vociferous (vo-sif'e-rus), a. [< vociferate) + 
-OMJ*.] Making an outcry; clamorous; noisy: 
as, a vociferous partizan. 
Tlirice-three vocifrous heralds rose, to check the rout, and 
get 
Ear to their Jove-kept governors. Chapman, Iliad, ii. 83. 
Mocks of vociferous geese cackled about the fields. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 101. 
Every mouth in the Netherlands became vociferous to 
denounce the hypocrisy by which a new act of condemna- 
tion had been promulgated under the name of a pardon. 
Motley, Dutch Republic, II. 299. 
vociferously ( vo-sif' e-rus-li), adv. In a vocif- 
erous manner ; with" great noise in calling or 
shouting. 
vociferousness (vo-sif 'e-rus-nes), n. The char- 
acter of being vociferous ; clamorousness. 
vocular (vok'u-lar), a. [< L. vocula, a small 
or feeble voice (see vocule), + -ar 3 .] Vocal. 
[Rare.] 
He turned angrily round, and inquired what that young 
cur was howling for, and why Mr. Bumble did not favor 
him with something which would render the series of 
vocular exclamations so designated an involuntary process. 
Dickens, Oliver Twist, vii. 
vocule (yok'ul), n. [< L. vocula, a small or 
feeble voice, dim. of vox (voc-), voice : see voice.'] 
A faint or slight sound of the voice, as that made 
"by separating the organs in pronouncing p, t, 
or k. [Rare.] 
vodka (vod'ka), ii. [Russ. vodka, brandy, dim. 
of vofla, water.] A sort of whisky or brandy 
generally drunk in Russia, properly distilled 
from rye, but sometimes from potatoes. 
The captain sham! with us his not very luxurious meal 
of dried Caspian carp and almost equally dry sausage, 
washed down by the never-failing glass of vodka, and then 
we again stftrted on our forward journey. 
O'Donovan, Merv, iii. 
Vodki is the chief means of intoxication. 
A. J. C. Hare, Russia, i. 
vodu, . and re. Same as voodoo. 
voe (vo), n. [Also vo, Sc. vae ; < leel. vdgr, also 
written vogr, a creek, bay: common in local 
names.] An inlet, bay, or creek. [Shetland.] 
Voetian (vo-e'shian), n. [< Voetius (see def.) 
+ -a.] Afollow'erof Voetius of the Reformed 
Church in the Netherlands in the seventeenth 
century, who held, in opposition to Cocceius, to 
the literal sense in interpreting both the Old 
and the New Testament. 
VOgie (vo'gi), a. [Also voky, vokie; origin ob- 
scure.] Vain; proud; also, merry; cheery. 
[Scotch.] 
We took a spring, and danced a fling. 
And wow but we were voyie ! 
Jacobite Relics, p. 81. (Jamieson.) 
VOglite (vog'lit), n. [Named after J. F. Vogl, 
a German mineralogist.] A hydrated carbon- 
ate of uranium, calcium, and copper, of an emer- 
ald-green color and pearly luster, occurring 
near Joachimsthal in Bohemia. 
Vogt's angle. In craniom., the angle formed 
by the junction of the nasobasilar and alveolo- 
nasal lines. 
vogue (vog), n. [< F. vogue, fashion, vogue (= 
Sp. bor/a, fashion, reputation, = Pg. It. voga, 
a rowing), orig. sway, the swaying motion of 
a ship, the stroke of an oar, < vaguer = Pr. Pg. 
vogar = Sp. bogar = It. vogare, row or sail, pro- 
ceed under sail, < OHG. wagon, MHG. war/en, 
G. wogen, fluctuate, float, < waga, a waving, 
akin to wag, MHG. wac, a wave (> F. vague), 
G. wage, a wave: see waw 1 ."} 1. The mode or 
fashion prevalent at any particular time ; pop- 
ular reception, repute, or estimation ; common 
currency: now generally used in the phrase in 
vogue: as, a particular style of dress was then 
in vogue; a writer who was in vogue fifty years 
ago ; such opinions are now in vogue. 
The Lord Treasurer Weston is he who hath the greatest 
Vogue now at Court, but many great ones have clashed 
with him. Howett, Letters, I. v. 81. 
Though Christianity were directly contrary to the Re- 
ligions then in vogue in the world, yet they [men] knew of 
no other way of promoting it but by patience, humility, 
meekness, prayers for their persecutors, and tears when 
they saw them obstinate. Stilling fleet, Sermons, I. iii. 
The Wits of the Age, the great Beauties, and short-liv'd 
People of Vogue, were always her Discourse and Imitation. 
Steele, Tender Husband, i 1. 
The vogue of operas holds up wonderfully, though we 
have had them a year. Swift, Letter, March 22, 1708-9. 
I demanded who were the present theatrical writers in 
voyue. Ooldsmith, Vicar, xviii. 
2. General drift of ideas; rumor; report. 
6780 - 
The vogue of our few honest folks here is that Duck is 
absolutely to succeed Eusdeu in the laurel. 
Shrift, To Gay, Nov. 19, 1730. 
Some affirm the Earl of Suffolk . . . goes general of the 
fleet; but most opinions give it to my Lord Denbigh. . . 
Captain Fennington hath the vogue to go his vice-admiral. 
Court and Times of Charles I., I. 181. 
Voice (vois), 11. [Formerly also royec; < ME. 
voice, woice, earlier vois, voys, voiz, voce, < OF. 
vois, vois, rttiz, F. roix = Pr. vote, voute = Sp. 
Pg. vo: = It. voce, < L. vox, a voice, utterance, 
cry, call, a speech, saying, sentence, maxim, 
word, Language, = Gr. EJTO<; (*FSKOS), a word 
(see epos, epic), = Skt. vacJius, speech. From 
the L. vox, or the verb vocare, call, are nit. E. 
vocal, vowel, vocable, advocate, advowsoii, avoca- 
tion, vouch, avouch, convoke, evoke, invoke, pro- 
voke, revoke, equivocal, univocal, vocation, vo- 
ciferate, etc.] 1. The sound uttered by the 
mouths of living creatures ; especially, human 
utterance in speaking, singing, crying, shout- 
ing, etc. ; the sound made by a person in speak- 
ing, singing, crying, etc.; the character, qual- 
ity, or expression of the sounds so uttered : as, 
to hear a voice; to recognize a voice; a loud 
voice; a low voice. 
Thei gon before him with processioun, with Cros and 
Holy Watre ; and thei svngen Veni Creator Spiritus with 
an highe Voys, and gon towardes him. 
Manaevule, Travels, p. 244. 
Ther sat a faucon over hire hed fill hye, 
That with a pitous voys so gan to cry. 
Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 404. 
Her voice was ever soft, 
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. 
SAot.,Lear, v. 3. 273. 
Voice as a scientific term may mean either the faculty of 
uttering audible sounds, or the body of audible sounds 
produced by the organs of respiration, especially the lar- 
ynx of man and other animals : contradistinguished from 
speech or articulate language. Voice is produced when 
air is driven by the muscles of expiration from the lungs 
through the trachea and strikes against the two vocal 
cords (see corrfi), the vibrations of which produce sounds 
varying in different animals according to the structure of 
the organs and the power which the animal possesses 
over them. Voice can, therefore, be found only in ani- 
mals in which this system of respiration is developed, and 
the lungs and larynx (or syrinx) actually exist. Fishes, 
having no lungs, are dumb, as far as true vocal utterance 
is concerned, though various noises may issue from their 
throats (see croaker, grunt, and drum). In man the supe- 
rior organization and mobility of the tongue and lips, as 
well as the perfection of the larynx, enable him to modify 
his vocal sounds to an almost infinite extent. In ordinary 
speaking the tones of the voice have nearly all the same 
pitch, and the variety of the sounds is due rather to the 
action of the mouth-organs than to definite movements 
of the glottis and vocal cords. In singing the successive 
sounds correspond more or less closely to the ideal tones of 
the musical scale. The male voice admits of division into 
tenor and bass, and the female into soprano and contralto. 
The lowest female tone is an octave or so higher than the 
lowest tone of the male voice ; and the female's highest 
tone is about an octave above that of the male. The com- 
pass of both voices taken together is four octaves or more, 
the chief differences residing in the pitch and also in the 
timbre. In medicine, voice is the sound of utterance as 
transmitted through the lungs and chest- wall in ausculta- 
tion. In zoology, voice is ordinarily restricted to respira- 
tory sounds or vocal utterance, as above explained, and as 
distinguished from any mechanical noise, likestridulation, 
etc. The more usual word for the voice of any animal is 
cry; and the various cries, distinctive or characteristic of 
certain animals, take many distinctive terms, according to 
their vocal quality, as bark, bay, bellow, Meal, bray, cacltle, 
call, caw, chatter, chirp, chirrup, duel!, coo, croak, crow, gab- 
ble, gobble, growl, grunt, hiss, honk, hoot, howl, low, mew, 
neigh, peep, pipe, purr, quack, roar, scream, screech, snarl, 
snort, sony, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, trumpet, twitter, 
warble, waul, whine, whinny, whistle, whoop, yawp, yell, 
yelp, and many others. The voices of some animals, as 
certain monkeys and large carnivores and ruminants, may 
be heard a mile or more. The voice reaches its highest 
development, in animals other than human, in the dis- 
tinctively musical class of birds, some of which, notably 
parrots and certain corvine and sturnoid birds, can be 
taught to talk intelligible speech. 
2. The faculty of speaking ; speech ; utter- 
ance. 
It [emancipation] shall bid the sad rejoice, 
It shall give the dumb a voice, 
It shall belt with joy the earth ! 
Whittier, Laus Deo ! 
3. A sound produced by an inanimate object 
and regarded as representing the voice of an 
intelligent being : as, the voice of the winds. 
The floods have lifted up their voice. Ps. xciii. 3. 
The twilight voice of distant bells. 
Whittier, The Merrimack. 
Rain was in the wind's mice as it swept 
Along the hedges where the lone quail crept. 
William if orris, Earthly Paradise, I. 393. 
4. Anything analogous to human speech which 
conveys impressions to any of the senses or to 
the inind. 
I, now the voice of the recorded law, 
Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life. 
Shak., M. for M., ii. 4. 61. 
E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries. 
dray, Elegy. 
voice 
5. Opinion or choice expressed; the right of 
expressing an opinion ; vote; suffrage: as, you 
have no voice in the matter. 
Sic. How now, my masters ! have you chose this man ? 
First Cit. He has our voices, sit. Shuk., Cor., ii. 3. 1B4. 
Matters of moment were to be examined by a lury, hut 
determined by the maior part of the Conncell, in which the 
President had two voyces. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 151. 
They who seek nothing but thir own just Liberty have 
always right to win it, and keep it, whenever they have 
Power, be the Voices never so numerous that oppose it. 
Milton, Free Commonwealth. 
Let us call on God in the mice of the church. Bp. Fell. 
My voice is still for war. 
Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate 
Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ! 
Addison, Cato, ii. 1. 
He possibly thought that in the position I was holding 
I might have some voice in whatever decision was arrived 
at. nineteenth Century, XXVI. 861. 
6. One who speaks ; a speaker. 
A potent voice of parliament, 
A pillar steadfast in the storm. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxiii. 
This no doubt is one mi the chief praises of Gray, as of 
other poets, that he is trie voice of emotions common to 
all mankind. Lowell, New Princeton Rev., I. 17.'i. 
7. Wish or admonition made known in any 
way; command; injunction. 
Ye would not be obedient unto the mice of the Lord 
your God. Deut. viii. 20. 
He is dull of hearing who understands not the voice of 
God, unless it be clamorous in an express and a loud com- 
mandment. Jet. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. a 
8f. That which is said ; report; rumor; hence, 
reputation; fame. 
The common voice, I see, is verified 
Of thee. Shot., Hen. VIII., v. 3. 170. 
I fear you wrong him ; 
He has the voice to be an honest Roman. 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, iv. 5. 
Philenzo 's dead already ; . . . 
The voice is, he is poison'd. 
Shirley, Bird in a Cage, v. 1. 
The Lord of Andover is to have 20,000 in lieu of his 
mastership of the Home, besides being to be made an earl 
and a privy counsellor, as the voice goes. 
Court and Times of Charles I., I. 19. 
9f. A word ; a term ; a vocable. Vdatt. 10. 
In phonetics, sound uttered with resonance of 
the vocal cords, and not with a mere emission 
of breath; sonant utterance. 11. In g-rnm., 
that form of the verb or body of inflections 
which shows the relation of the subject of the 
affirmation or predication to the action ex- 
pressed by the verb. In Latin there are two voices, 
active and passive, having different endings throughout. 
In Greek and Sanskrit the voices are active and middle, 
certain forms, mostly middle, being used in a passive 
sense. In English, again, there is no distinction of voices ; 
every verb is active, and a passive meaning belongs only 
to certain verb-phrases, made with help of an auxiliary : 
thus, he is praised, we have been, loved. Equal voices, in 
music. See equal. la my volcet, in my name. 
Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends 
To the strict deputy. Shale., M. for M., i. 2. 185. 
Inner ypice. See inner part, under inner. In voice, in 
a condition of vocal readiness for effective speaking or 
singing. -Mean voice. See means. Middle voice, in 
music. See middle part, under middle. Veiled voice. 
See veil, n., 7. Voice Of the Silence, intelligible words 
which some persons seem to themselves to hear in cer- 
tain hypnotic states, as the clairaudient, and also in some 
cerebral disorders; an auditory hallucination. With one 
voice, unanimously. 
The Greekish heads, which with one voice 
Call Agamemnon head and general. 
Shak., T. and C., i. 3. 221. 
voice (vois), v. ; pret. and pp. voiced, ppr. voicing. 
[< voice, .] I. trans. 1. To give utterance to; 
assert; proclaim; declare; announce; rumor; 
report. 
Rather assume thy right in silence . . . than voice it 
with claims and challenges. Bacon, Great Place (ed. 1887). 
Here is much lamentation for the King of Denmark, 
whose disaster is voiced by all to be exceeding great. 
Court and Times of Charles I., I. 148. 
We are, in fact, voicing a general and deepening discon- 
tent with the present state of society among the working 
classes. N. A. Rev., CXLIII. 229. 
2. To fit for producing the proper sounds ; reg- 
ulate the tone of: as, to voice the pipes of an 
organ. See voicing. 3. To write the voice- 
parts of. Hill, Diet. Mus. Terms. 4t. To nom- 
inate; adjudge by acclamation; declare. 
Your minds, 
Pre-occupied with what you rather must do 
Than what you should, made you against the grain 
To voice him consul. Shak., Cor., ii. 3. 242. 
Like the drunken priests 
In Bacchus' sacrifices, without reason 
Voicing the leader-on a demi-god. 
Ford, Broken Heart, i. 2. 
